The Festival will be officially opened with the "Conserving the National Library" exhibition at the Library itself starting from 3.00 PM. The exhibition will feature the work done by KAF which was supported by the Getty Foundation & it will be opened by myself and Antoine Wilmering the head of the Keeping it Modern initiative.

On Wednesday night our program is reserved for documentaries, and weŽll be screening two short movies by Daniel Schwartz of Fancis KereŽs work, a movie by Urban Think Tank on the Sarajevo Museum, the Dezeen movie on Drones, as well as the Mies on Scene documentary by the Mies Foundation and Ivan Blasi.

During the whole week a Book Salon with publications from DPR-Barcelona, Actar, UrbanNext, Mies Foundation, Docomomo, Getty Foundation & GCI, as well as KAF, will happen at Soma Bookstation & Bar. On Saturday weŽll be closing the first wee of events with several book presentations by Gezim Pacarizi, Eliza Hoxha, Mies Foundation, DPR-Barcelona, & UrbanNext, and will be discussing the need for "written architecture" in a panel with the above. The event will be properly closed with a party at Soma starting from 9.00 PM.

The Festival will return with another week of lectures, workshops & exhibitions in September with lectures by David Basulto of Archdaily, an exhibition on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 cycle, FA workshops and more...

The Kosovo Architecture Festival is organized by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation & Future Architecture Platform, with help from the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, the City of Prishtina, the US Embassy, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Kino Armata, and many many more...